It shows:
- How to diagnose the human resource policies of your firm and their immediate and long term consequences; and how to change them.
- How to integrate personnel policies into the firm’s overall competitive strategy
- How to create mechanism for employee influence and participation; how to assess the potential for union-management collaboration.
- How to manage human resources flows in, through, and out of the organization with policies that treat employees as a potential life long asset
- How to design and manage reward systems that complement other HRM changes. The author show that using money (particularly pay-for-individual-performance schemes) as leading policy for motivating employees can actually hurt an organization’s HRM efforts.
- How to design practical, effective work systems to dramatically improve employee commitment and competence